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No. 4 Lions dodge Buckeyes, 3-2

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The fourth-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions used three unanswered goals to come-from-behind to defeat No. 17 Ohio State in Big Ten Conference action at Value City Arena on Thursday night in the league opener for both teams. The Nittany Lions run their winning streak to six games and improve to 8-1-0 overall and 1-0-0 in conference action while Ohio State drops to 4-3-0 on the year and 0-1-0 in league play with the loss. HOW IT HAPPENED The Buckeyes opened the scoring early in the first period as Broten Sabo ripped a slapshot from the high point that deflected off a ...

Big Ten slate includes Lions-Buckeyes, Trojans-Huskers

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer Things to watch this week in the Big Ten Conference: Game of the week No. 23 Southern California (5-2, 3-1 Big Ten) at Nebraska (6-2, 3-2), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (NBC) Each of these teams has at least a remote chance of earning a College Football ...

Carter, Barkley headline Lions’ play in Week 8

UNIVERSITY PARK – Week 8 in the National Football League saw 47 Penn State Football alums populate the rosters of 25 National Football League organizations. Top performances from Week 8 included a star running back scoring in the air and on the ground, a pair of promising performances by ...

Nittany Lions square off with Scarlet Knights on Halloween

UNIVERSITY PARK -- The Penn State Nittany Lion field hockey team (7-9, 2-5 B1G) closes out the regular season with a home game this weekend. Penn State welcomes Rutgers (8-8, 3-4 B1G) to Happy Valley for a Halloween night game at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 31. Penn State is coming off a split weekend on the road. The Nittany Lions downed Lock Haven 8-0 on Friday and fell at No. 5 Princeton 6-1 on Sunday. Penn State is being led by Natalie Freeman, who has 17 points off six goals and a team-high five assists. Freshman Joji Purdy has 13 points off six goals and an assist while Ella Jennes, ...

McKenna named Big 10 Third Star

ROSEMONT, Ill. – Freshman Gavin McKenna (Whitehorse, Yukon) was named the Big Ten Hockey Third Star of the Week following a pair of multi-point efforts in a series sweep against Stonehill as announced by the league office on Tuesday morning. This marks the first career weekly accolade for McKenna and is the fourth-straight week a Nittany Lion has been represented in the three stars after Charlie Cerrato (October 7), JJ Wiebusch (October 14) and Matt DiMarsico (October 21) were named the First Stars of the Week each of the first three weeks of the season. McKenna collected ...

PSU heads to “The Shoe”

Following are the highlights of Terry Smith’s Monday press conference: Saturday’s game: at Ohio State (Noon, FOX) Records: Penn State (3-4), Ohio State (7-0) Odds: Penn State is a 20.5-point underdog. Rankings: Ohio State is No. 1, while Penn State is unranked by the Associated Press. Series: Ohio State leads, 26-14 SUBHD: Preparing for No. 1 Buckeyes This year’s edition of the Penn State-Ohio State contest has lost a lot of luster in recent weeks due to the Lions starting Big Ten play 0-4. What was once thought to be one of the best games of the season and a likely ...